Very true.
In the example I pasted out of one of my rsync scripts it uses ssh to do the
transfer.
I don't think I've had a machine with rsh (not secure) enabled for about 10
years :)

sync -avz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats --progress --bwlimit=500
--exclude='*Norton\ Ghost\ Backup*' --exclude='*lost+found'
jd@192.168.0.103:/newdrive/* /newdrive

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that rsync is handy if you need to
> transfer securely over an insecure channel. I think I recall you saying its
> intranet, so this may not apply...
>
> Eric
>
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